| (Copyright 09-15-2024) by Rod Reynolds (Wentzville, Missouri) |
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| Not infrequently in public discourse we hear the word “values” mentioned. Many of the issues we face as a nation and a world boil down to a question of values. For example, the questions of abortion, human rights, women’s rights, homosexual rights, religious expression, family, out of control government spending and national debt? Do these issues have anything to do with values? Nearly every political and social issue you can name touches on the personal values of citizens and the public values of the nation. There is a sense among many people that the United States, as well as other nations, has abandoned sound values and that fact accounts for many of the problems the nation faces, along with the world in general. The profound changes that have occurred in recent decades in the nation’s values are seen reflected in pathologies such as the dramatic increase in out of wedlock births, incidence of drug abuse, proliferation of pornography and social changes such as legalization of abortion, same-sex “marriage,” dramatic increases in criminal activity, and many other aspects of personal behavior and public life. What are values? Are values important, and if so, why? Does it matter what your values are? Finally, what are the “true values”? The Bible has answers to the question of values that may surprise you. Sermon Link: What Are True Values? | COGMessenger ————————————————————————————————————————- See Rod Reynolds other articles at: Reynolds, Rod – The “New” Church of God Messenger (church-of-god-bismarck.org) Reprinted with permission from: Messenger Church of God https://www.cogmessenger.org/ ————————————————————————————————————————- |
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